A preliminary investigation of worm infections in a Bluetooth environment Export

@inproceedings{su:worm, abstract = {Over the past year, there have been several reports of malicious code exploiting vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth protocol. While the research community has started to investigate a diverse set of Bluetooth security issues, little is known about the feasibility and the propagation dynamics of a worm in a Bluetooth environment. This paper is an initial attempt to remedy this situation.We start by showing that the Bluetooth protocol design and implementation is large and complex. We gather traces and we use controlled experiments to investigate whether a large-scale Bluetooth worm outbreak is viable today. Our data shows that starting a Bluetooth worm infection is easy, once a vulnerability is discovered. Finally, we use trace-drive simulations to examine the propagation dynamics of Bluetooth worms. We find that Bluetooth worms can infect a large population of vulnerable devices relatively quickly, in just a few days.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Su, Jing and Chan, Kelvin K. W. and Miklas, Andrew G. and Po, Kenneth and Akhavan, Ali and Saroiu, Stefan and de Lara, Eyal and Goel, Ashvin}, booktitle = {WORM '06: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Recurring malcode}, citeulike-article-id = {3374009}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1179542.1179545}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1179542.1179545}, doi = {10.1145/1179542.1179545}, isbn = {1-59593-551-9}, keywords = {bluetooth, malware, mobile, worms}, location = {Alexandria, VA, USA}, month = {November}, pages = {9--16}, posted-at = {2009-07-15 22:53:17}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A preliminary investigation of worm infections in a {Bluetooth} environment}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1179542.1179545}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - su:worm L3 - citeulike-article-id:3374009 N2 - Over the past year, there have been several reports of malicious code exploiting vulnerabilities in the Bluetooth protocol. While the research community has started to investigate a diverse set of Bluetooth security issues, little is known about the feasibility and the propagation dynamics of a worm in a Bluetooth environment. This paper is an initial attempt to remedy this situation.We start by showing that the Bluetooth protocol design and implementation is large and complex. We gather traces and we use controlled experiments to investigate whether a large-scale Bluetooth worm outbreak is viable today. Our data shows that starting a Bluetooth worm infection is easy, once a vulnerability is discovered. Finally, we use trace-drive simulations to examine the propagation dynamics of Bluetooth worms. We find that Bluetooth worms can infect a large population of vulnerable devices relatively quickly, in just a few days. CY - Alexandria, VA, USA SN - 1-59593-551-9 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 16 TI - A preliminary investigation of worm infections in a {Bluetooth} environment PB - ACM T2 - WORM '06: Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Recurring malcode SP - 9 KW - bluetooth KW - malware KW - mobile KW - worms AU - Su, Jing AU - Chan, Kelvin AU - Miklas, Andrew AU - Po, Kenneth AU - Akhavan, Ali AU - Saroiu, Stefan AU - de Lara, Eyal AU - Goel, Ashvin PY - 2006/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1179542.1179545 ER -